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Complex query

Peter Rice pmr at sanger.ac.uk
Wed Nov 5 07:23:25 EST 1997


dessen at lovelace.infobiogen.fr (Philippe Dessen) writes:
> How is it possible with wwwgetz (SRS 4 or SRS 5) and the Query Form 
> to have answer to the following (not very complex) query ?
> 
> Description    : topoisomerase
> Organism       : homo sapiens
> Keyword        : ! EST
> 
> with ! EST  => error
> with * ! EST    very long query and timeout.
>
>With 2 queries and combining them (in the Query Manager)  no problem, 
>but this is not optimized !
>
>[libs={embl emblnew}-Description: topoisomerase*] & [libs-Organism: homo sapiens*] 
>[libs={embl emblnew}-Keywords: EST*] 
>
>Query "Q1 ! Q2" found 43 entries 

It works on the command line (SRS 5)

getz "([libs={embl emblnew}-des:topoisomerase] &[libs-org:homo sapiens]) \
         ! [libs-key:est]"


You need the parentheses around the first two queries, then "not" the
third.  The query form may not cover the construction you need, so
your Q1 and Q2 method may be the best for the Web interface.


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